Saul Bellow (1915- )
- novelist and Nobel laureate
- born in Lachine, Quebec
- parents emigrated from St. Petersburg
- educated at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University
- taught at University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Boston University
- lived for a time in Paris on a Guggenheim fellowship, where he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
- 1976 Nobel Prize in literature
- Novels:
- Dangling Man (1944), deals with a young man waiting to be drafted in wartime
- The Victim (1947)
- The Adventures of Augie March (1953). The novel gives an often humorous picture of Jewish life in Chicago and of a young man's search for identity.
- Seize the Day (1956) and
- Henderson the Rain King (1959).
- Herzog (1964) and
- Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
- Humboldt's Gift (1975), 1976 Pulitzer Prize in fiction
- The Dean's December (1982)
- To Jerusalem and Back (1976)
- More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
- A Theft (1989)
- The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
- Essays:
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